All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 2
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NewsSusana de Sousa Dias reflects on the highs and lows of her archive-based documentary career
Exploring the political archives of Portugal’s dictatorship has taken its toll, she admits.
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FeaturesWhy IDFA DocLab 2025 is exploring the dark side of online technology
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen explains why this year’s theme is “logging off”.
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NewsPluto Film boards Covid-19 vaccine doc ‘The Man Who Healed The World’
EXCLUSIVE: The film is the story of the accidental discovery of the vaccine technology by doctoral student Ingmar Hoerr.
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NewsZahraa Gandour’s IDFA title ‘Flana’ picked up for sales in boost for Iraqi filmmaking
EXCLUSIVE: Ghandour was the first female Iraqi director to be selected for a major film festival following the TIFF selection of ‘Flana’.
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Features“No one stands alone,” says IDFA’s industry head of the festival’s sense of community
Source: Courtesy of IDFA Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen Ask Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen, head of industry at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), about the mood among professionals on the eve of this year’s industry programme (November 15-19) and she says there is some wariness but also ” incredible ...
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FeaturesIDFA’s Isabel Arrate Fernandez talks about her first edition, opening with three short films and her first controversy
Arrate Fernandez explains the decision not to accredit members of Israeli state organisations.
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News“His was the face everyone wanted to see”: UK industry remembers the late Film Four exec Bill Stephens
The much-loved and colourful sales executive died this week aged 76.
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FeaturesThe Ink Factory heads talk juggling multiple John le Carré adaptations, international strategy and new Ang Lee project
Stephen and Simon Cornwell are working on a new version of ’The Spy Who Came In From The Cold’.
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FeaturesWhy are Second World War movies still hot property for sales agents?
Beta Cinema, Global Constellation, Filmax, LevelK are on the offensive at the AFM with war movies.
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FeaturesAFM 2025: 12 buzz titles from European sellers
Screen profiles a selection of key AFM titles available to buyers at various stages of production.
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: spotlighting eight dynamic director- or actor-focused production companies
Companies that focus on projects for the filmmakers or actors who lead them play a vital role in the UK production landscape
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: Sixteen Films
While Ken Loach has retired from directing, the company remains busy working on projects with other filmmakers
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: Recorded Picture Company
Having first launched his company in 1974, Jeremy Thomas is still busy hatching new projects: “Cinema is my passion”
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: Genesius Pictures
Debbie Gray and Julian Gleek’s company has a busy slate as it looks to follow up on its Good Luck To You, Leo Grande success
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: Potboiler Productions
While focus has shifted to series and production services, Potboiler still keeps a busy film development slate
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FeaturesThe Brit 50: EMU Films
With Ian McShane coming on board as an investor, EMU is looking to grow the size of the projects it makes
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NewsClaire Simon on her Annie Ernaux documentary ‘Writing Life’ and the magic of listening
Source: © DOK Leipzig / Susann Bargas Gomez DOK Talk with Claire Simon Acclaimed French documentary director Claire Simon has an unusual but not very lucrative way to ensure her fans can watch her old films – she makes them available on her website. Anyone ...
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NewsFrom colonial horrors to rebuilding Ukraine, the buzzy documentary projects at DOK Leipzig’s co-pro market
Projects pitched this week at DOK Co-Pro Market received mixed responses from sales agents and festival programmers
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NewsSales agents call on filmmakers to regard them as strategic partners rather than an afterthought
Sales agents, speaking on a DOK Leipzig panel, urge documentary filmmakers to work with them from early stages of a project
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FeaturesHow the premium large format gold rush is pitting exhibitors against Imax
The box office for PLF cinemas is forecast to beat $4bn by 2034, with Vue the latest exhibitor to enter the fray.